depressed - Story 26507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar sound of the gate slamming. The familiar sight of the beagle, darting across the lawn. The familiar feeling of… nothing. It was like a thick fog had settled in his mind, making everything distant and indistinct.

He looked at his unkempt yard, the weeds now taller than the flowers. Everything felt pointless. Even the sunlight seemed muted, its warmth failing to reach him. He felt like a ghost, adrift in his own life.

He knew he should be annoyed. He knew he should feel something. But he didn't. He just felt… empty.

Emotion: depressed

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.06 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.08

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion depressed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 depressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the depressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the depressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.417
`每天`	0.353
`无法`	0.330
`own`	0.311
`😔`	0.309

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.492
`B`	-0.393
`P`	-0.352
`l`	-0.310
`!`	-0.307